Little Silver Point, Monmouth County, NJ

In 1844 a steamboat captain by the name of John Borden made a new home for himself in Little Silver, relocating to Little Silver from Red Bank. Upon arriving in Little Silver, it turned out to be John Borden’s career choice which contributed to the development of Little Silver Point.

Little Silver Point is a peninsula found on Little Silver’s northeast corner. When John Borden first stepped ashore, what he found was not much more than soggy saltwater marshes.

So John Borden enacted a makeover for his new marshland home. A wetland makeover would come to be. A makeover touched off with fancy hotels.

John Borden’s lot in life was steamboats. John Borden incorporated this maritime tool into his plan: bring New Yorkers to Little Silver Point atop steamboat decks.

Little Silver Point became a resort.

John Borden passed his steamboat acumen on to his son, Richard Borden.

The younger Borden went on to establish Silver Bay House. In Little Silver.
Silver Bay House would go on to become the place to go for Manhattanites.